Preface

The Spring Shell provides an interactive shell that allows you to
plugin your own custom commands using a Spring based programming
model.

The shell has been extracted from the Spring Roo
project, giving it a strong foundation and rich feature set. One
significant change from Spring Roo is that the plugin model is no longer
based on OSGi but instead uses Spring IoC container to discover commands
through classpath scanning. There is currently no classloader isolation
between plugins, however that maybe added in future versions.

This document assumes that the reader already has a basic familiarity
with the Spring Framework.

While every effort has been made to ensure that this documentation is
comprehensive and there are no errors, nevertheless some topics might
require more explanation and some typos might have crept in. If you do spot
any mistakes or even more serious errors and you can spare a few cycles
during lunch, please do bring the error to the attention of the Spring Shell
team by raising an
issue.